GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and nobody panicked

GLM 5.2 total victory: the week open source won and nobody panicked

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

June 25, 2026 · 1h 30m

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This episode covers the latest developments in AI, including the success of GLM 5.2 and various announcements from major companies.

Hey, it’s Alex. Next month is my 40th b-day, and honestly, my wish for that month is to have a week like this week. A very chill, almost nothing announced week. This week started strong, with Sakana announcing FUGU (AI router) that can beat Fable (which we didn’t get back yet), and then... quiet. The most important thing in AI this week from a release standpoint is that GLM 5.2 from Z.AI is having it’s DeepSeek moment! Tons of new love for this model since last week! (+ we have the fastest GLM 5.2 deployment in the world with CW inference !) The rest we can quickly count on one hand, Anthropic added Claude to Slack (which made folks hate Andrej Karpathy), OpenAI announced their own inference chip, GPT 5.6 will be delayed and the US Gov will decide who gets it (yes really) and Sean Grove joined us to talk about Linzumi and his vision for running 10,000 agent hours per person per day. Oh and next week, is a special AI Engineer live stream from World’s Fair! Don’t miss it Let’s get into it! Subscribe to never miss a beat! GLM 5.2 is having its DeepSeek moment ( HF , CW Inference ) We covered GLM 5.2 last week, but this week was when the rest verdict came in! We’ve never seen a…

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